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The Probability of Military Rule in Africa, 1970-2007

Costa, Jacopo; Caruso, Raul; Ricciuti, Roberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2012

In this paper we empirically analyze the socio-economic determinants of the existence of military dictatorships in Africa. A recent literature in political economy analyses the relationship between the civil undemocratic government and the military as an agency problem: the civilian government...

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Resource scarcity, effort allocation and environmental security: An agent-based theoretical approach

Hassani-Mahmooei, Behrooz; Parris, Brett W. - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 183-192

It is widely feared that environmental degradation induced by climate change may lead to economic and political insecurity through channels such as resource scarcity and mass migration. In this paper, we have developed an agent-based model to study whether resource scarcity is likely to lead to...

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Pacem in terris : are papal visits good news for human rights?

Endrich, Marek; Gutmannn, Jerg - 2022

We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...

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Frontier governmentality

Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict management and disproportionately empowers tribal elites, provides a more fragile basis for maintaining social order in the face of shocks. Combining a historical border that...

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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2013

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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Citizens’ Protests : causes and consequences. A Research on Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita

Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022

Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens’ protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing...

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Citizens' Protests : Causes and Consequences. A Research on Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita

Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022

Citizens' political participation in protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens' protests, determining the cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests, and allowing a...

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A Theory of Regional Conflict Complexes

Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2018

Civil conflicts spill over into neighboring countries. This paper proposes a theory of the contagion of civil wars … contagion effect is nonlinear and creates multiple equilibrium situations of regional complexes of civil conflicts. This helps … in the measurement of the contagion effect. We also derive a positive spillover of civil wars: governments are sometimes …

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Do Explosions Shape Voting Behavior?

Vargas, Juan F.; Purroy, Miguel E.; Perilla, Sergio; … - 2022

Violence in conflict settings is seldom random, making its effects indistinguishable from the intentions of the perpetrator. We leverage on the quasi-randomness of accidental landmine explosions to study how violence shapes electoral outcomes in Colombia. We combine the geolocation of landmine...

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